NOTE: Entries for SHOWCASE #4 through THE FLASH #116 are adapted from
an index by Murray Ward.

Showcase No. 4
September-October 1956
Cover: Flash running out of a frame of film //Carmine Infantino / Joe
Kubert
Story: “Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Robert Kanigher
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Kubert
Intro and origin: The Flash (Barry Allen; appears in second story in
THE FLASH #128 between panels 3 / 4 of page 7; earlier chronological appearances
in flashbacks in THE FLASH #126 (2) and 195 (2))
Supporting Character: Iris West (first appearance; next appears in
issue #8)
Cameo appearance: The Flash of Earth-Two (Jay Garrick; as a comic book
character)
Villain: The Turtle Man (first appearance; next appears in THE FLASH
#220)
Comment: This is the first story of the Flash of Earth-One.
Prior appearances of Barry Allen and his cast members are chronologized
as follows:
Barry Allen is born (THE FLASH #284, pg. 13, panels 2-6)
Barry Allen plays the Flash (Jay Garrick-style) with Daphne Dean (THE
FLASH #308, pg. 2, panels 1-7; pg. 4, panels 3-4; pg. 10, panel 4-pg. 11,
panel 5)
Barry Allen undergoes a traumatic experience on a roller coaster (THE
FLASH #195 (2), pg. 1)
In an alternate 30th Century, Eric and Fran Russell send their daughter
Iris back to the 20th Century, where she is found by Prof. and Mrs. Ira
West (THE FLASH #203, pg. 10, panel 2-pg. 12, panel 2)
The chronology of this story and other flashback stories are as follows:
Barry Allen gains super-speed through a bath of electrically-charged
chemicals (pg. 2, panel 1-pg. 7, panel 3).
THE FLASH #267 (2), pg. 1, panel 1-pg. 2, panel 3
THE FLASH #309, pg. 11, panel 4-pg. 12, panel 1
Barry throws away his drenched lab clothes (THE FLASH #309, pg.
12, panels 3-4)
Barry decides to become the Flash, considers operating without
a mask, and decides to use a mask after all (THE FLASH #128 (2))
Barry reveals his secret to Prof. Ira West, and has him create
the Flash’s uniform (THE FLASH #267 (2), pg. 2, panel 4-pg. 5, panel 6)
The Flash fights the Turtle (pg. 7, panel 4-pg. 12, panel 5)
The Flash rescues Prof. West from two burglars, but a blow to
the head causes West to forget his knowledge of the Flash’s secret identity
(THE FLASH #267 (2), pg. 6, panel 1-pg. 8, panel 6)
According to THE FLASH #309, the Flash’s origin takes place on April
23 at 6:14 P.M.
Synopsis: Police scientist Barry Allen is bathed in chemicals which
have been struck and knocked over onto him by a lightning bolt. He
subsequently gains the power of super-speed, and is inspired by a comic
book featuring his old hero, the Flash, to create a costume and become
the Flash of his Earth. Afterwards, he tackles his first opponent,
the Turtle Man.

Showcase No. 13
March-April 1958
Cover: Flash pursued by a torpedo
Story: AAround the World In Eighty Minutes” (14 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Robert Kanigher
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in issue #8)
Supporting Character: Iris West (last appearance in issue #8)
Villains: The Black Cat of Paris, El Claw, various pirates (first and
only appearance for all)
Synopsis: With eighty minutes before he has a date with Iris West,
Barry Allen becomes the Flash and takes care of various criminals and emergencies
around the world.

Story: AMaster of the Elements” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Frank Giacoia
Feature Character: The Flash
Supporting Character: Iris West
Villains: Mr. Element (Al Desmond; first appearance and origin; last
chronological appearance in flashback in THE FLASH #288; next appears,
as Dr. Alchemy, in next issue) and his gang (including Argon, Xenon, Krypton,
and Radon; first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis: A new super-villain, Mr. Element, who uses the powers of
various chemical elements in his crimes, arrives in Central City to challenge
the Flash.

Showcase No. 14
May-June 1958
Cover: Flash trapped in hourglass //Carmine Infantino / Frank Giacoia
Story: AGiants of the Time-World” (13 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Robert Kanigher
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Frank Giacoia
Feature Character: The Flash
Supporting Character: Iris West
Villains: Fourth dimensional aliens (first and only appearance)
Synopsis: The Flash breaks the time barrier to try to find a UFO which
has kidnapped Iris West, and finds himself a prisoner in the fourth dimension
of aliens who grow to giants within an hour.

Story: AThe Man Who Changed the Earth” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Frank Giacoia
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in THE FLASH #105)
Supporting Character: Iris West (next appears in THE FLASH #105)
Villains: Dr. Alchemy (Al Desmond; formerly Mr. Element; first appearance
as Dr. Alchemy; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #21), Ben Sniper
(first and only appearance)
Synopsis: Al Desmond, in jail, discovers that the Alucky stone” of
his cellmate is actually the fabled Philosopher’s Stone, with the power
to transmute matter. He steals the stone and uses it to break out
of prison and then to commit crimes as Dr. Alchemy, in which identity he
once again battles the Flash.

The Flash No. 105
February-March 1959
Cover: Flash vs. Mirror Master (in mirror reflections) //Carmine Infantino
/ Joe Giella
Story: AConqueror From 8 Million B.C.” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in SHOWCASE #14; origin
retold in this story)
Supporting Character: Iris West (last appearance in SHOWCASE #14)
Intro: John Haines (only appearance)
Villain: Katmos (first and only appearance)
Comment: This is the first issue of THE FLASH. Its numbering
continues from FLASH COMICS, whose last previous issue was cover-dated
February 1949.
Synopsis: The Flash encounters Katmos, a metallic-based being who is
the sole survivor of a civilization destroyed ages ago by a comet, and
who intends to rule the modern world by mind control.

Story: AThe Master of Mirrors” (13 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next chronological appearance in flashback
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #144)
Villain: The Mirror Master (Samuel Joseph Scudder; first appearance
and origin; next appears in issue #109)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the heroes of Earth
battle Commander Blanx and his White Martians in flashback in JUSTICE LEAGUE
OF AMERICA #144.
Synopsis: The Flash encounters a new villain, the Mirror Master, who
uses the power of mirrors in his crimes.

The Flash No. 106
April-May 1959
Cover: Flash vs. Pied Piper //Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella
Story: AMenace of the Super-Gorilla” (15 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last chronological appearance in flashback
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #144)
Supporting Characters: Iris West, Solovar (first appearance; last chronological
appearance in flashback in DC SUPER-STARS #14)
Intro: Fred Pearson (only appearance), gorillas of Gorilla-City (last
chronological appearance in flashback in DC SUPER-STARS #14)
Villain: Gorilla Grodd (also known simply as Grodd; first appearance;
last chronological appearance in flashback in DC SUPER-STARS #14)
Comment: Though Solovar gives the Flash a false history of Gorilla-City
having existed for ages on Earth, it is revealed in DC SUPER-STARS #14
that he, Grodd, and the inhabitants of Gorilla-City are really emigrants
from the planet Calor. They are also revealed to have encountered
Green Lantern during an untold portion of the story in GREEN LANTERN #1
(1). This means that the first story in GREEN LANTERN #1 takes place before
this story.
Synopsis: Grodd, an intelligent gorilla criminal escaped from a secret
city populated by such gorillas in Africa, comes to America and learns
the secret of Aforce of mind” power from Solovar, the captive and exiled
Gorilla-City leader. With this power, Grodd returns to Gorilla-City
to conquer it, and Solovar seeks out the Flash to help him overcome Grodd.

Story: AThe Pied Piper of Peril” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash
Supporting Character: Iris West
Villains: The Pied Piper (Hartley Rathaway, AKA Thomas Peterson, AKA
Henry Darrow; first appearance and origin; last chronological appearance
in flashback in issue #307; true name and Darrow alias revealed in issue
#307; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OFAMERICA #14), various crooks (first
and only appearance)
Synopsis: The Flash is challenged by the Pied Piper, a new super-villain
whose pipe harnesses the powers of sound in his crimes.

Story: AThe Amazing Race Against Time” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash
Intro: Kyri (an android), the Rulers of the Galaxy (only appearance
for all)
Synopsis: A mysterious man appears in Central City who appears to be
faster than the Flash, and who runs a race against the Scarlet Speedster--backwards.

The Flash No. 108
August-September 1959
Cover: The Flash on a treadmill //Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella
Story: AThe Speed of Doom” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Frank Giacoia
Feature Character: The Flash
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Mohruians (only appearance)
Villains: Kee Feleg (aka Dr. Hirach), Mohruian criminals (first and
only appearance for all)
Synopsis: The Flash takes a scientist up on his offer to scientificially
measure his speed, only to learn that his host is a criminal from another
dimension and he is trapped on an ever-accelerating treadmill.

Story: AThe Super-Gorilla’s Secret Identity” (14 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next chronological appearance in flashback
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #9 and 97)
Supporting Characters: Iris West, Solovar (next appears in issue #115)
Villain: Gorilla Grodd (next appears in issue #115)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash joins several other heroes
to form the Justice League of America and battle the Appelaxians in flashback
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #9 and 97.
Synopsis: Grodd escapes from Gorilla-City again, transforms himself
by an evolution ray into a human named Drew Drowden, manufactures a pill
that can give him mind-over-matter powers, and attacks the Flash.

Story: ASecret of the Sunken Satellite” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash
Intro: Fred Jansen (only appearance), the Saremites (the Pale People;
next appear in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #90)
Villains: The Maugites (first and only appearance)
Synopsis: An astronaut’s dreams lead the Flash to an undersea civilization
which he must aid against its fishlike enemies.

Story: AMeet Kid Flash” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash
Intro and origin: Kid Flash (Wally West, the future Flash II)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Synopsis: Iris West sets up a meeting between the Flash and her nephew
Wally, the president of his town’s Flash Fan Club. While the Flash
is explaining his origin to Wally, a bolt of lightning spills chemicals
over the boy and gives him super-speed. Subsequently, the Flash gives
Wally a cut-down version of his own uniform and dubs him Kid Flash.

The Flash No. 111
February-March 1960
Cover: Flash pursued by cloud creatures //Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella
Story: AThe Invasion of the Cloud Creatures” (13 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #28)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Dr. Wiley Summers (next appears in issue #113)
Villain: The cloud-creatures (first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight Starro in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #28.
Synopsis: The Flash hears the lecture of Dr. Wiley Summers asserting
that Earth is menaced by cloud creatures who live in volcanoes. Summers
is labelled a crackpot until the creatures attack.

Story: AThe Challenge of the Crimson Crows” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: Kid Flash
Villains: The Crimson Crows, the Golden Eagles (only appearance for
all)
Comment: This is the first Kid Flash solo story.
Synopsis: Kid Flash tries to stop a rumble between two rival gangs
in his hometown and ends up saving them both from a fire.

The Flash No. 112
April-May 1960
Cover: Flash vs. Elongated Man //Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella
Story: AThe Mystery of the Elongated Man” (13 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (between BRAVE AND THE BOLD #28 / 29)
Intro and origin: The Elongated Man (Ralph Dibny; next appears in issue
#115)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Dibny (Elongated Man’s older brother; first and only appearance)
Villains: The Perry Veto gang (first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight the Weapons Master in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #29.
Synopsis: A new super-hero, the Elongated Man, appears on the scene
in Central City and steals the Flash’s thunder with his stretching powers.

Story: AThe Man Who Claimed the Earth” (13 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #30)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Zus, Boryas (only appearance for both)
Other Character: Dr. Wiley Summers (last appearance in issue #111;
last appearance)
Villain: Po-Siden (first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight Amazo and Prof. Ivo in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #30.
Synopsis: Beings from the world of Olimpus believe Earth to be one
of their ancient colonies, and send their representative Po-Siden to take
charge of it, which puts him at odds with the Flash.

Story: AKing of the Beatniks” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: Kid Flash (between issues #112 / 116)
Other Character: Linda Grant (last appearance in issue #112; last appearance)
Intro: Mr. Mason, Jimmy King (only appearance for both)
Villains: Paul King and the Beatnik Gang (first and only appearance
for all)
Synopsis: Kid Flash tracks down a Blue Valley runaway who has gone
to live with his cousin, who is a member of a gang who pose as beatniks.

The Flash No. 117
December 1960
Cover: Captain Boomerang vs. the Flash //Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella
Story: AHere Comes Captain Boomerang” (13 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: The Flash
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Willard W. “W. W.” Wiggins (next appears in issue #304)
Villains: Captain Boomerang (Digger Harkness; first appearance and
origin; next appears in issue #124), Sadie and her partner (first and only
appearance for both)
Comment: In this story, Iris West first suspects that Barry Allen is
the Flash.
Synopsis: Digger Harkness, an Australian crook, responds to a toy company’s
search for a ACaptain Boomerang” to promote their new line of toy boomerangs.
Unknown to the company, he begins using the boomerangs to pull heists,
which brings the Flash into the picture.

Story: AThe Madcap Inventors of Central City” (13 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#2)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Winky Moylan, Blinky Boylan, Noddy Toylan (of Earth-One; first
and only appearance for all)
Villain: Toughy Boraz and another crook (first and only appearance
for both)
Comment: The Three Dimwits introduced in this story are the Earth-One
versions of the Three Dimwits that shared various adventures with the Golden
Age Flash of Earth-Two.
Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League battle
Simon Magus and other sorcerors in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #2.
Synopsis: When Winky Moylan, Blinky Boylan, and Noddy Toylan lose their
jobs on the same day, all put their heads together--literally--for money-making
schemes, which draws the attention of a couple of crooks, which in turn
draws the attention of the Flash.

The Flash No. 118
February 1961
Cover: Flash trying to stop crooks’ bullet from hitting a scarecrow
//Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella
Story: AThe Doomed Scarecrow” (14 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #2
/ 3)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Edward G. Robinson (of Earth-One), Brandon, Hank Walters (only
appearance for all)
Villains: Steve Palmer and his gang (first and only appearance for
all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
and Adam Strange fight Kanjar Ro in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #3 and MYSTERY
IN SPACE #75.
Synopsis: The Flash, on the set of a movie based on his exploits, seeks
to discover who is behind the mysterious attempts on the life of the actor
playing him.

Story: AThe Elongated Man’s Undersea Trap” (14 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#4)
GS: Elongated Man (between issues #115 / 124)
Supporting Character: Sue Dearborn Dibny (first appearance; marries
the Elongated Man in this story; next appears in issue #?)
Villains: Grstad and other Bredans (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
induct Green Arrow and deal with Cardan in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #4.
Synopsis: Both the Flash and the Elongated Man are caught while skin-diving
by Afishermen” from a sub-sea city who make slaves of the surface people
they catch.

Story: ASecret of the Stolen Blueprint” (13 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#5)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Pete Forrester, Doris Hunt, Bill ABeefy” Lawson (only appearance
for all)
Villains: Enemy agents (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight Dr. Destiny in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #5.
Synopsis: The Flash lends a hand to an old classmate in showing up
an obnoxious rival, winning the hand of a girl, and keeping enemy agents
from making off with a secret government project of his devising.

The Flash No. 122
August 1961
Cover: The Flash running around giant grenade //Carmine Infantino /
Murphy Anderson
Story: ABeware the Atomic Grenade” (15 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #5
/ 6)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Anton Previn (only appearance)
Villain: The Top (Roscoe Nayle Dillon; first appearance and origin;
next appears in issue #141)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash fights the Mirror Master
and helps the Justice League battle Prof. Amos Fortune in JUSTICE LEAGUE
OF AMERICA #6.
Synopsis: The Flash encounters a new enemy, the Top, who has the power
to spin at high speeds and uses specially-gimmicked toy tops in his crimes.

The Flash No. 123
September 1961
Cover: The Flash and Flash of Earth-Two running to save construction
worker from falling steel beam //Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story: AFlash of Two Worlds” (25 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker:
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #6
/ 7; origin retold in this story)
GS: The Flash of Earth-Two (Jay Garrick; origin retold in this story;
last chronological appearance in flash-forward in ALL-STAR COMICS #48;
next appears in issue #129)
Supporting Characters: Iris West (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #7), Joan Williams Garrick (last appearance in ?; next appears
in issue #129; marriage to the Flash of Earth-Two revealed in this story)
Cameo appearance: Professor Hughes (in flashback)
Villains: The Thinker (last chronological appearance in issue #214;
next appears in THE ATOM #29), the Fiddler (last appearance in ALL-STAR
COMICS #41; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #21), the Shade (last
appearance in FLASH COMICS #33; next appears in issue #151)
Comments: This is the first Earth-One / Earth-Two story, though the
meeting of Superboy of Earth-One and Clark Kent of Earth-Two in NEW ADVENTURES
OF SUPERBOY #15-16 takes place at an earlier time. It establishes
the heroes of DC’s Golden Age from 1935-55 as living in a different Earth
from the heroes of DC’s Silver Age (1955-86). The Earths are not
designated as AEarth-One” and AEarth-Two” until JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#21.
Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League fight the
Angellaxians in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #7.
Synopsis: By hitting a certain vibrational rate during a performance
for orphans, the Flash accidentally crosses over from his Earth to a parallel
Earth occupying the same space as his world, but in another universe.
There he discovers that the Flash of the 1940's, Jay Garrick, whom he read
of in comic books, is actually alive, and that he must help him against
three foes who have also come out of retirement.

Story: AVengeance Via Television” (9 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (also appears in flashback to indeterminate
time)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Edgar Barnard (only appearance)
Villain: James Lawton (first and only appearance)
Synopsis: A crook sent to jail by the Flash discovers a way to control
the minds of persons on television, and uses it to get revenge on the people
who sentenced him to prison.

The Flash No. 125
December 1961
Cover: The Flash and Kid Flash moving into Earth’s past and future
//Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella
Story: AThe Conquerors of Time” (25 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#8)
GS: Kid Flash (between issues #122 / 127)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: The time-treadmill
Villains: Mynher, the Dokris (first and only appearance for all)
Comments: This is the first 12-cent issue of THE FLASH.
Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League fight Pete
Ricketts and the Top Ten in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #8.
Synopsis: The Flash creates a treadmill which, when he runs on it at
super-speed, can send him to a different time-period as long as he maintains
the proper internal vibration. With it, he sends himself to the future
and Kid Flash to the past in order to foil an alien invasion in the 23rd
Century.

The Flash No. 126
February 1962
Cover: Mirror Master firing bazooka at mirror-Flash //Carmine Infantino
/ Murphy Anderson
Story: AThe Doom of the Mirror Flash” (13 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #8)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Annamara and other Orinocas (only appearance for all)
Villain: The Mirror Master (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#6; next appears in issue #130)
Synopsis: The Mirror Master uses a mirror to transport himself into
a dimension populated by Amazons who bring him anything he wants, without
him having to steal it. This proves so boring that he finds a way
to bring the Flash into that dimension, to give him a challenge to overcome.

Story: ASnare of the Headline Huntress” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#9; some origin details revealed in flashbacks, his earliest chronological
appearance, preceding his appearance in SHOWCASE #4)
Supporting Characters: Daphne Dean (first appearance; last chronological
appearance in flashback in issue #308; next appears in issue #132), Dr.
Henry Allen, Nora Allen (the Flash’s parents; first appearance for both;
last chronological appearancei in flashback in issue #284; both next appear
in issue #165)
Intro: Will Fowler (only appearance)
Villains: A gang of crooks (first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story, the Flash helps the Justice League
celebrate its anniversary in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #9.
Synopsis: A publicity agent for Daphne Dean, Barry Allen’s childhood
sweetheart who is now an actress, arranges for her to visit her hometown
of Fallville as a publicity stunt, knowing Barry will be there and expecting
that both of them will become engaged and nail him a new set of headlines.

The Flash No. 127
March 1962
Cover: Grodd shocking the Flash //Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella
Story: AThe Reign of the Super-Gorilla” (15 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #9)
Supporting Characters: Boka (first appearance; next appears in issue
#?), Solovar (between issues #115 / 155)
Intro: Boka’s mother, Denby and his boss, the Grodd Admiration Society
(only appearance for all)
Villain: Gorilla Grodd (between issues #115 / 155)
Synopsis: William Dawson is released from prison, makes his way back
to Gorilla-City, and is converted into his Gorilla Grodd form again.
As such, Grodd falls head-over-heels for a female gorilla named Boka, and
bathes himself in neo-magnetic radiation that causes everyone within a
100-mile radius of him to fall in love with him or become his friend--including
the Flash.

Story: AMystery of the Troubled Boy” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: Kid Flash (between issues #125 / 130)
Supporting Characters: The Eta Pi Fraternity (last appearance in issue
#118; last appearance)
Intro: Charles Elkin, Tommy Elkin (only appearance for both), James
Moon (in flashback; dies in this story)
Villain: A gang of spies (first and only appearance)
Synopsis: Kid Flash sets out to discover why an adopted Indian boy
has taken to dressing in tribal clothes and breaking into houses, only
to learn that he is stalking a nest of enemy spies.

The Flash No. 128
May 1962
Cover: Abra Kadabra’s hand causing Flash to vanish out of his uniform
//Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella
Story: AThe Case of the Real-Gone Flash” (18 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#10)
Villain: Abra Kadabra (first appearance and origin; next appears in
issue #133)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight Felix Faust, the Lord of Time, and Abnegazar, Rath, and Ghast in
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #10-11.
Synopsis: Abra Kadabra, a 63rd Century wannabe stage magician whose
skills of legerdemain are unappreciated in his own time, comes to the 20th
Century to gain fame and applause. When he learns that the Flash
draws more attention than anyone else, he resolves to become a criminal
and defeat him.

Story: AThe Origin of Flash’s Masked Identity” (7 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (between panels 3 / 4 of page 7 of first
story in SHOWCASE #4; origin details revealed)
Cameo appearance: Flash of Earth-Two (in a comic book), Dr. Bailey,
a gang of crooks (in Barry Allen’s daydream)
Synopsis: While creating his Flash identity, Barry Allen considers
what his life might be like if he went without a mask and made a public
announcement that Barry Allen was the Flash.

The Flash No. 129
June 1962
Cover: Flash and Flash of Earth-Two vs. Captain Cold and the Trickster
//Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story: ADouble Danger on Earth” (25 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #11; next appears in GREEN LANTERN (second series) #13)
GS: The Flash of Earth-Two (between issues #123 / 137; origin retold
in this story)
Supporting Characters: Joan Garrick (between issues #123 / 137), Iris
West (next appears in GREEN LANTERN (second series) #13)
Cameo appearances: Wonder Woman, Atom, Hawkman, and Green Lantern of
Earth-Two, Black Canary, Dr. Mid-Nite (the Justice Society of America),
the Key, the Turtleneck Gang (all in flashback), Mirror Master, the Top
(as costumes)
Villains: Captain Cold (between issues #114 / 134), the Trickster (last
appearance in issue #121)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash teams up with Green Lantern
to fight the Spectarns in GREEN LANTERN (second series) #13, then helps
the Justice League fight Dr. Light in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #12.
Synopsis: The Flash of Earth-Two comes to Earth-One in search of a
meteorite that may save his world, but finds he has to team up with his
fellow Flash to defeat the team of Captain Cold and the Trickster.

Story: AKid Flash Meets the Elongated Man” (11 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: Kid Flash (between issues #127 / 133)
GS: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #13), Elongated
Man (between issues #124 / 134)
Villains: The Weather Wizard (between issues #110 / 145)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
battle the Robot Justice League in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #13.
Synopsis: Kid Flash substitutes for his mentor when the Elongated Man
calls for aid to find out why a town is still iced over in springtime,
and they find it is an extortion plot of the Weather Wizard’s.

The Flash No. 132
November 1962
Cover: The Flash becoming super-heavy and sinking through pavement
//Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella
Story: AThe Heaviest Man Alive” (15 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #14)
Other Characters: Teacher Elider and his class (last appearance in
issue #116; last appearance for all)
Villains: Dro Dorno and his two cohorts (first and only appearance
for all)
Synopsis: In order to make new exciting situations to film for his
entertainment show, Thrills of Earth, Gobdorian executive Dro Dorno causes
disasters to happen on Earth by applications of invisible energy.
Later, to his chagrin, he learns that the Flash is visiting Gobdor, and
that he himself has been chosen as the Scarlet Speedster’s guide.

Story: AThe Farewell Appearance of Daphne Dean” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #15)
Supporting Characters: Iris West, Daphne Dean (between issues #126
/ 248)
Villains: Cranky and his gang (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
deal with untouchable aliens in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #15.
Synopsis: The Flash learns that Daphne Dean, Barry Allen’s childhood
sweetheart, has fallen in love with him, and tries to convince her that
his feats of super-speed are in reality publicity stunts.

The Flash No. 133
December 1962
Cover: Abra Kadabra figure on poster turning Flash into a puppet //Carmine
Infantino / Murphya Anderson
Story: APlight of the Puppet-Flash” (15 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #15
/ 16)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: The governor of Central City’s state (only appearance)
Villains: Abra Kadabra (between issues #126 / 149), various crooks
(first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
solve the problem of the Maestro in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #16.
Synopsis: Abra Kadabra hypnotically induces the governor into pardoning
him from prison and, once freed, uses his super-science to turn the Flash
into a puppet.

Story: AThe Threat of the Absent-Minded Professor” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#17)
Supporting Characters: Iris West (next appears in GREEN LANTERN (2nd
series) #20), Prof. Ira West (first appearance; last chronological appearance
in issue #267 (2); next appears in issue #141)
Villains: Frank Enwood, Chub, their gang (first and only appearance
for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight the Tornado Tyrant in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #17.
Synopsis: Barry Allen is summoned to meet Prof. Ira West, Iris’s father,
who insists on knowing his intentions towards Iris, just before a criminal
scientist puts the snatch on the professor to get him to fix a vault-opening
ray-gun.

The Flash No. 135
March 1963
Cover: The Flash changing Kid Flash’s uniform with bolt from his insignia
//Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story: ASecret of the Three Super-Weapons” (25 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #17
/ 18)
GS: Kid Flash (between issues #133 / 138; gets new costume in this
story)
Supporting Character: Marion West (between issues #133 / 138)
Intro: Ryla, Committee For Peace, the Korydonians (only appearance
for all)
Villains: Commander Kordi, the Makryds (first and only appearance for
all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
battle Dr. Destiny and the Super-Justice League in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#18, then teams with Green Lantern to fight the Mikrids in GREEN LANTERN
(2nd series) #20.
Synopsis: The Flash and Kid Flash must locate three super-weapons sent
by people from another dimension to Earth and use them to fight off aliens
who are intent on conquering Earth.

Story: ABarry Allen--You’re the Flash!--and I Can Prove It!” (10
pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#19)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Villain: Rod Pagin, various crooks (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story, the Flash helps the Justice League
fight the protectors of Starzl in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #19.
Synopsis: Against his conscious will, Barry Allen goes up to a recently
released ex-con whom the Flash had jailed, and reveals his secret identity.

The Flash No. 137
June 1963
Cover: The Flash fighting the Flash of Earth-Two while Vandal Savage
escapes //Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story: AVengeance of the Immortal Villain” (25 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #19
/ 20)
GS: The Flash (last appearance in issue #129; next appears in JUSTICE
LEAGUE OF AMERICA #21), the Atom, Hawkman, Green Lantern (last chronological
appearance for both in flash-forward in ALL-STAR COMICS #48; both next
appear in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #21), Wonder Woman (last appearance
in WONDER WOMAN #77; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #55; all
characters are the Earth-Two heroes), Dr. Mid-Nite (last chronological
appearance in flash-forward in ALL-STAR COMICS #48; next appears in JUSTICE
LEAGUE OF AMERICA #29), Johnny Thunder (last chronological appearance in
SUPERMAN FAMILY #205; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #37; all
appear as the Justice Society of America; last chronological appearance
as a team in flashback in ADVENTURE COMICS #466; next team appearance in
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #21)
Supporting Characters: Iris West, Joan Garrick (between issues #129
/ 151)
Other Characters: Napoleon Bonaparte, Otto von Bismarck (of Earth-Two;
in flashback)
Cameo appearances: The Brain Wave, the Gambler, the Wizard, Per Degaton,
the Thinker (the Injustice Gang of the World; on the cover of ALL-STAR
COMICS #37)
Villain: Vandal Savage (last appearance in ALL-STAR COMICS #37; next
appears in ?; origin retold in this story)
Comments: This is the first appearance of the Justice Society of America
since the cancellation of ALL-STAR COMICS in 1951.
Shortly after this story, the Flash helps the Justice League fight
Spaceman X in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #20.
Synopsis: When mysterious lights appear over several American cities
which, on Earth-Two, are home cities of several Justice Society heroes,
the Flash goes to Earth-Two to investigate and learns, with the Flash of
Earth-Two, that several JSA members have been kidnapped by their old enemy,
Vandal Savage.

The Flash No. 139
September 1963
Cover: The Flash and Professor Zoom //Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story: AMenace of the Reverse-Flash” (25 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#21)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Dr. Walter Drake, Bord Balsamo (only appearance for both)
Villain: Professor Zoom (the Reverse-Flash; Eobard Thawne; first appearance
and origin; next appears in issue #147)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
and Justice Society fight the Crime Champions in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#21-22.
Synopsis: A Atime satellite” sent into the 25th Century contains a
Flash uniform which a criminal uses to give himself super-speed, and an
atomic clock which has become an atomic bomb, necessitating the Flash’s
intervention and a battle against his evil counterpart, the Reverse-Flash.

The Flash No. 140
November 1963
Cover: Flash attacked by Captain Cold and Heat Wave //Carmine Infantino
/ Murphy Anderson
Story: AThe Heat Is On--For Captain Cold” (15 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #22)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Henry Willens, Priscilla Varner (Dream Girl; not to be confused
with the member of the Legion of Super-Heroes)
Villains: Captain Cold (between issues #134 / 150), Heat Wave (Mick
Rory; first appearance; last chronological appearance in flashback in issue
#266; next appears in issue #155)
Synopsis: Captain Cold breaks jail, finds himself aided by Heat-Wave,
a villain who wields heat as he does cold, against the Flash, and both
decide to compete against each other in a crime-spree to see who will be
worthy to woo a TV hostess called Dream Girl.

Story: AThe Metal-Eater From the Stars” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#23 / THE ATOM #8)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Villain: A gas-being (first appearance; destroyed in this story)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight the Queen Bee in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #23 / THE ATOM #8.
Synopsis: The Flash traps a gaseous metal-eating being in his ring,
but it revives due to an emotional spark between Barry Allen and Iris West
and begins consuming metal on Earth.

The Flash No. 141
December 1963
Cover: Barry Allen changing into Flash and then into third identity;
Top vignettes //Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story: AThe Mystery of Flash’s Third Identity” (13 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #23 / THE ATOM #8)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Jimmy Darrel (only appearance)
Villains: The Top (last appearance in issue #122; next appears in JUSTICE
LEAGUE OF AMERICA #28), Paul Gambi (first appearance; next appears in issue
#222)
Comment: The space mission with the Justice League the Flash mentions
in this story was the fight against the Queen Bee in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #23.
Synopsis: The Flash, on the trail of the Top, comes across a tailor
who makes costumes for super-heroes and is lured into a trap.

Story: APuzzle of the Phantom Plunderers” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#25)
Intro: The Federal Defense Council, Kilorians (only appearance for
all)
Villains: Ak-Zaka and his cohorts (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight Kraad the Conqueror in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #25.
Synopsis: Criminal spies from another dimension tap into the Flash’s
energy emanations to cross into Earth’s dimension and commit security thefts.
When the Flash enters the spies’ dimension to capture them, he is judged
responsible for their thefts and jailed himself.

The Flash No. 143
March 1964
Cover: Flash and two phony Green Lanterns //Carmine Infantino / Murphy
Anderson
Story: ATrail of the False Green Lanterns” (25 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broomer
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #25
/ 26)
GS: Green Lantern (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #25;
next appears in GREEN LANTERN (2nd series) #27)
Supporting Characters: Iris West (next appears in BRAVE AND THE BOLD
#53), Carol Ferris (between GREEN LANTERN (2nd series) #26 / 27)
Villains: Thomas Oscar (T. O.) Morrow (first appearance; next appears
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #65), three duplicate Green Lanterns (first
appearance for all; all destroyed in this story)
Comment: Shortly after this story, the Flash helps the Justice League
fight Despero in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #26, then teams up with the
Atom to fight Attila-5 in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #53.
Synopsis: The Flash and Green Lantern are challenged by three evil
duplicates of Green Lantern to stop them from pulling three fabulous thefts
on behalf of their creator.

The Flash No. 144
May 1964
Cover: The Flash running in a circle to keep Aman-missle” from striking
the ground //Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story: AMenace of the Man-Missle” (15 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD
#53; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #27)
Supporting Character: Iris West (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD
#53)
Villain: Luke Elrod (first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight AI” in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #27, then briefly appears with Kid
Flash in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #54.
Synopsis: The Flash must deal with an escaped convict who has gained
the power to transform his body into any form he chooses--including that
of Barry Allen, or a nuclear missle.

Story: ALesson For a Star Athlete” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: Kid Flash (last appearance in issue #138; next appears
in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #54)
Intro: Peter Barnett, Captain Owens (only appearance for both)
Villain: A gang of crooks (first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story, Kid Flash helps Robin and Aqualad
battle Mr. Twister in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #54, in which story the Flash
also briefly appears.
Synopsis: After a high school athlete helps save Kid Flash from a flood
when the latter twists his ankle, both are captured by crooks. The
Junior Scarlet Speedster gives him an object lesson on the importance of
scientific knowledge when he uses it to facilitate their escape.

Story: AThe Girl From the Super-Fast Dimension” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in GREEN LANTERN (2nd series)
#29)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Doralla Kon (next appears in issue #157)
Villains: A gang of crooks (first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
monitor Green Lantern’s battle with the Protonic Force in GREEN LANTERN
(2nd series) #29, then helps them fight Headmaster Mind in JUSTICE LEAGUE
OF AMERICA #28, and then helps them explore the alternative origins of
Superman in ACTION COMICS #314.
Synopsis: A girl from a super-fast dimension comes to Earth and meets
and befriends the Flash, who is convinced she is connected to mysterious
explosions that happen in her presence.

Story: AFatal Fingers of the Flash” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash
Supporting Character: Iris West
Villains: A gang of crooks (first and only appearance)
Synopsis: During a time-trip to the far future of Earth, the Flash
handles a liquid metallic substance which, when he returns to the present,
gives his hands the touch of age.

The Flash No. 148
November 1964
Cover: The Flash and Captain Boomerang //Carmine Infantino / Murphy
Anderson
Story: AThe Day Flash Went Into Orbit” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #30)
Villains: Captain Boomerang (between issues #124 / 155), the Crooked
Four (including Fanning; first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis: The Flash steps into the middle of a conflict between his
old foe, Captain Boomerang, and the Crooked Four, a gang who can anticipate
the Boomerang Bandit’s heists and beat him to them.

Story: AThe Doorway To the Unknown” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#31)
Intro: Fred Dallman (a ghost), David Dean, Jack Dean (only appearance
for all)
Villains: Various crooks (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
induct Hawkman and fight Joe Parry and Super-Duper in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #31, then attends the wedding of Aquaman and Mera with them in
AQUAMAN #18, then helps J’onn J’onzz and Hawkgirl fight an alien mutant
in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #56.
Synopsis: The Flash gets a visit from a repentant crook named Fred
Dallman, who puts him on the trail to save the life of a man he framed
for his crime, and who, in turn, gets him to save his brother from a life
of crime. But when the speedster mentions Dallman’s name to the police,
he learns that Dallman died last night at midnight--precisely the time
he appeared to the Flash.

The Flash No. 149
December 1964
Cover: Wally West and Mr and Mrs. Robert West watching Flash unmask
on television //Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story: AThe Flash’s Sensational Risk” (14 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD
#56; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #32)
GS: Kid Flash (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #54; next appears
in flashback in TEEN TITANS #53)
Supporting Characters: Robert West, Marion West (both between issues
#138 / 165)
Intro: The Ikorans (only appearance)
Cameo appearance: A Grodan (in flashback)
Villains: The K-10 Gang (first and only appearance)
Synopsis: Kid Flash, in a case in another dimension, sustains a blow
that gives him amnesia when he gets back home, and the Flash must capture
his foes and restore his memory.

Story: AThe Touch-and-Steal Bandits” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#33)
Villains: Danny and Joey Ralston (first and only appearance for all)
Comments: This story establishes that the Flash’s top speed is at least
10 times the speed of light.
Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League fight the
Alien-Ator in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #33, then helps the Elongated Man
fight the Mirror Master in DETECTIVE COMICS #336.
Synopsis: After reaching a velocity ten times the speed of light, the
Flash finds he has telepathic powers. Unfortunately, he has also given
(as a side effect) two crooked brothers the ability to move with their
minds anything they have touched.

The Flash No. 151
March 1965
Cover: The Flash trying to reach the Shade and the Earth-Two Flash
through a force-field //Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story: AInvader From the Dark Dimension” (25 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in DETECTIVE COMICS #336;
next chronological appearance in flashback in TEEN TITANS #53)
GS: Flash of Earth-Two (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #29 / 37)
Supporting Characters: Iris West, Joan Garrick (between issues #137
/ 173)
Villains: The Shade (last appearance in issue #123; next appears in
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #136)
Comment: Shortly after this story, the Flash, the Justice League, Kid
Flash, and several other teenage heroes battle the Antithesis, which case
also serves as the origin of the Teen Titans, as shown in flashback in
TEEN TITANS #53.
Synopsis: The Shade robs in Earth-One to give himself a law-abiding
Afront” on Earth-Two, and two Flashes may not be able to stop his powers,
augmented by a dark dimension.

Story: ACase of the Explosive Vegetables” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#35)
Supporting Characters: Ira West (between issues #141 / 159), Iris West
Villains: Dmitri and other Communist spies (first and only appearance
for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight Abnegazar, Rath, and Ghast in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #35.
Then Kid Flash helps the Teen Titans fight the Separated Man in BRAVE AND
THE BOLD #60, in which adventure the Flash also briefly appears.
Synopsis: The absent-minded Professor Ira West stumbles into a nest
of spies, thinks that they are the group of scientists he is to address,
and shows them his vegetable-growing ray that inadvertently turns veggies
into explosives. The Flash has to sort things out.

The Flash No. 153
June 1965
Cover: The Flash knocking Professor Zoom into the 25th Century; Mr.
Element vignette //Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story: AThe Mightiest Punch of All Time” (25 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD
#60; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #36)
Supporting Character: Rita [Desmond] (between issues #147 / 165)
Villains: Professor Zoom (between issues #147 / 165), Mr. Element (between
issues #147 / 165)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
of America fight Brain Storm in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #36.
Synopsis: Professor Zoom engineers his release from prison by tampering
with an examination machine, then comes to the 20th Century to expose Mr.
Element to a ray that will turn him evil, and cause the mayor of Central
City to outlaw super-speed.

The Flash No. 156
November 1965
Cover: Iris West and Kid Flash before wanted poster of Barry Allen
and the Flash //Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story: AThe Super-Hero Who Betrayed the World” (24 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #38
/ 40)
GS: Kid Flash (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #60; next appears
in SHOWCASE #59)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Gyrians (only appearance for all)
Villains: Klkan, Mrmol, Drdons (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
deal with the machinations of Andrew Helm (and helps fight the Mirror Master
and Captain Cold) in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #40, after which Kid Flash
helps the Teen Titans fight the Flips’ impersonators in SHOWCASE #59, an
adventure in which the Flash also briefly appears. (Later, Kid Flash
also helps the Teen Titans fight the Beast-God of Xochatan in TEEN TITANS
#1.)
Synopsis: An alien tyrant comes to Earth, reveals the Flash’s secret
identity, and demands that the speedster be turned over to him or he will
destroy the world within 48 hours.
The Flash No. 157
December 1965
Cover: The Top aging the Flash (three vignettes) //Carmine Infantino
/ Murphy Anderson
Story: AWho Stole Flash’s Super-Speed?” (14 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in SHOWCASE #59)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Other Character: Doralla Kon (last appearance in issue #145; last appearance)
Intro: Alkomarians (only appearance)
Villain: Korakar Lok and his henchmen (first and only appearance for
all)
Synopsis: Barry Allen is astonished by the appearance of a Flash imitator
who also possesses super-speed. But Doralla Kon of Alkomar holds
the key to the mystery, and takes the Flash back to her world to set things
right.

Story: AThe One-Man Justice League” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#42)
GA: Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Carter Hall (Hawkman), Aquaman, Ray
Palmer (the Atom)
Cameo: Green Lantern, Hawkman, Atom, Superman (as costumes and statues)
Villains: The Land-Sea-Air Gang (first and only appearance), Professor
Ivo (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #30; next appears in ACTION
COMICS #480)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
and Metamorpho fight the Unimaginable in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #42.
Synopsis: Professor Ivo finds a way to infuse the powers of various
Justice Leaguers into his body, and to give himself their appearances,
by using a duplicate of the Flash’s aura energy. But whenever he
does it, the Flash also changes into a different member of the JLA.

Story: AThe Mirror With 20-20 Vision” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#44)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Villain: Mirror Master (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#40; next appears in issue #174)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight the Unimaginable in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #44.
Synopsis: The Mirror Master acquires a mirror which shows a reflection
from 20 seconds in the future, and, in one instance, it shows him shooting
the Flash.

Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Walt Dempsey
Villain: Vardar Varr, an Ornitho-Man (first and only appearance for
both)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash, the Justice League, Kid
Flash, and the Teen Titans attend the wedding of Mento and Elasti-Girl
in DOOM PATROL #104, then the Flash helps the Justice League fight Shaggy
Man in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #45. Then Kid Flash helps the Teen
Titans fight DIABLO in TEEN TITANS #4. Then Flash teams with Batman
to fight the Speed Boys in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #67.
Synopsis: The Flash must discover what strange component of a Tunnel
of Terrors in an amusement park causes unreasoning fear to the people who
enter it, including himself.

The Flash No. 163
August 1966
Cover: Flash holding his hand up to halt reader //Carmine Infantino
/ Joe Giella (signed)
Story: AThe Flash Stakes His Life On You” (15 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD
#67)
Supporting Character: Iris West
Intro: Mrs. Prentiss, Alice (only appearance for both)
Villains: Ben Haddon and his gang, David Gulch (first and only appearance
for all)
Synopsis: A criminal causes everyone to forget about the Flash, causing
him to fade from existence, unless he can somehow manage to get people
to believe in him again.

The Flash No. 165
November 1966
Cover: The Flash interrupting the wedding of Barry Allen and Iris West
// Murphy Anderson (signed)
Story: AOne Bridegroom Too Many” (24 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #47; next appears in BLACKHAWK #228; marries Iris West in this
story)
GS: Wally West (Kid Flash; between TEEN TITANS #5 / 6)
Supporting Characters: Iris West (marries the Flash in this story;
known as Iris Allen after this story), Robert and Marion West (last appearance
for both in issue #149; both next appear in DC SPECIAL SERIES #11), Prof.
Ira West (between issues #161 / 172), Rita Desmond (marriage to Al (Mr.
Element) Desmond revealed; between issues #153 / 216), Al Desmond (Mr.
Element; between issues #153 / 216), Dexter Myles (between issues #161
/ 171), Dr. Henry Allen, Nora Allen (both between issues #126 / 221)
Villains: Professor Zoom (between issues #153 / 175), Pee Wee, Longo,
various crooks (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story (and after his honeymoon, we trust),
the Flash helps the Justice League monitor the Blackhawks in BLACKHAWK
#228-230, fight Felix Faust in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #49, and attend
the mock funeral of Aquaman in AQUAMAN #30 while Kid Flash helps the Teen
Titans deal with the Ant in TEEN TITANS #5 and fight Baltzer in TEEN TITANS
#6 and the Mad Mod in TEEN TITANS #7.
Issue #174 reveals that the wedding of Barry Allen and Iris West takes
place at 11 A.M.
Synopsis: Professor Zoom changes places and identities with the Flash
on the eve of Barry Allen’s wedding to Iris West.

The Flash No. 166
December 1966
Cover: Captain Cold and Heat Wave confronting the Flash on crutches
//Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella (signed)
Story: AThe Last Stand of the Three-Time Losers” (14 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in AQUAMAN #30)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Villains: Chomper, Doc, Profile, Mole, Ek-Ek (first and only appearance
for all)
Comment: This story confirms that a month has gone by since the Flash’s
wedding.
Synopsis: While battling a gang of three-time losers, the Flash finds
he must repeatedly break off the fight, change to Barry Allen, go to Iris,
and try to tell her he is the Flash.

Story: ATempting Target For the Temperature Twins” (9 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#50)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Villains: Captain Cold, Heat Wave (both between issues #155 / 174)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
and Robin in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #50.
This story takes place exactly one month after the Flash’s wedding.
Synopsis: The Flash sprains his ankle badly during a rescue attempt
and is placed on crutches, after which he encounters Captain Cold and Heat
Wave.

The Flash No. 167
February 1967
Cover: The Flash’s photo in want ads section of Picture News //Carmine
Infantino / Joe Giella (signed)
Story: AThe Real Origin of the Flash” (13 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Sid Greene
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #50; next appears in BLACKHAWK #228; origin retold in this story)
Intro: Mopee, the Heavenly Help-Mates (only appearance for all)
Cameo appearances: Iris Allen, Flash of Earth-Two, Vandal Savage (in
flashback)
Villains: Various crooks (first and only appearance)
Comment: Mopee’s assertion that he caused the lightning bolt to strike
the chemicals that turned Barry Allen into the Flash does not have to be
accepted at face value.
Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League monitor
the Blackhawks in BLACKHAWK #228-230.
Synopsis: Mopee, a Ahelpmate” with magical powers from another dimension,
claims to be responsible for the Flash’s origin. However, the fact
that Barry Allen was drenched in chemicals he did not own is a technical
foul. So, in order for the Flash to legally retain his powers, he
must earn enough money to buy the chemicals, and do so as the Flash.

The Flash No. 170
May 1967
Cover: Flash running by crime in the streets //Carmine Infantino /
Murphy Anderson (signed)
Story: AThe See-Nothing Spells of Abra Kadabra” (23 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Sid Greene
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in SUPERMAN’S GIRL FRIEND,
LOIS LANE #74)
GS: Flash of Earth-Two (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#38; next appears in issue #173), Dr. Fate, Dr. Mid-Nite (both between
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #47 / 64)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Intro: Margot Tyler, Artemus Jackson, a robot guard (only appearance
for all)
Villains: Abra Kadabra (between issues #163 / 175), various crooks
(first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash appears briefly with the
Justice League in SUPERMAN’S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #74, then helps the
Justice League fight the AMaster Thief” in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #53,
then teams with the Spectre to fight the Ghost Pilot in BRAVE AND THE BOLD
#72.
Synopsis: Abra Kadabra escapes jail and returns to the 20th Century
with a gimmick that makes Flash deaf, dumb, and blind to evil. But the
Flash of Earth-Two, Dr. Mid-Nite, and Dr. Fate come to Earth-One to lend
him a hand.

The Flash No. 171
June 1967
Cover: Flash lying in street with people taking no notice of him //Carmine
Infantino / Murphy Anderson (signed)
Story: AHere Lies the Flash--Dead and Unburied” (23 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Sid Greene
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD
#72; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #54)
Supporting Characters: Iris Allen, Dexter Myles (between issues #165
/ 190)
Intro: Mr. and Mrs. Charley Perkins, Elizabeth Perkins (only appearance
for all)
Villain: Dr. Light (last appearance in GREEN LANTERN (2nd series) #33;
next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #61)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight the Royal Flush Gang in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #54.
Synopsis: Dr. Light defeats Flash with an electric blast, uses a gimmick
to make him look like a piece of sidewalk, and lays him out for people
to walk over.

Story: AThe Machine-Made Robbery” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Sid Greene
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in SUPERMAN #199)
Supporting Character: Prof. Ira West (between issues #165 / 176)
Villaing: Hard Hat and his gang (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash races Superman with the
Justice League in the audience in SUPERMAN #199.
Synopsis: The Flash catches some crooks who have been using Prof. Ira
West’s computer as a robbery tool.

The Flash No. 173
September 1967
Cover: The Flash, Kid Flash, and the Flash of Earth-Two (three vignettes)
//Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson (signed)
Story: ADoomward Flight of the Flashes” (23 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Sid Greene
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in SUPERMAN #199; next
appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #55)
GS: The Flash of Earth-Two (last appearance in issue #170; next appears
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #64), Kid Flash (between TEEN TITANS #10 /
11)
Supporting Characters: Iris Allen (last appearance in SUPERMAN #199),
Joan Garrick (between issues #151 / 201)
Villains: Golden Man, the Domino Gang (first and only appearance for
all)
Comments: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
and Justice Society fight the black-sphered villains in JUSTICE LEAGUE
OF AMERICA #55-56 and then helps the Justice League teach a lesson in brotherhood
to three boys in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #57, while Kid Flash helps the
Teen Titans deal with D. J. Deejay in TEEN TITANS #11, have an adventure
in Spaceville in TEEN TITANS #12, defeat Mr. Scrounge and Mr. Big in TEEN
TITANS #13, fight the Gargoyle in TEEN TITANS #14, Captain Rumble in TEEN
TITANS #15, aliens from Dimension X in TEEN TITANS #16, the Mad Mod in
TEEN TITANS #17, Andre LeBlanc in TEEN TITANS #18, and Punch in TEEN TITANS
#19, meet Joshua in TEEN TITANS #20, and team with Batman to deal with
Lance Bruner in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #83 before he reappears in issue #189.
Synopsis: A mutant named Golden Man transports the Flash, Kid Flash,
and the Flash of Earth-Two to his planet Vorvan so that he may hunt them
down for sport.

The Flash No. 174
November 1967
Cover: Mirror Master, Heat Wave, Captain Boomerang, Top, Pied Piper,
and Captain Cold looking down on fallen Flash //Carmine Infantino / Murphy
Anderson (signed)
Story: AStupendous Triumph of the Six Super-Villains” (23 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Sid Greene
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #57)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen (reveals that she knows the Flash’s
secret identity in this story)
Intro: The Mirror Master of a parallel Earth (only appearance)
Villains: Mirror Master (between issues #161 / 206), Captain Cold,
Heat Wave (both between issues #166 / 193), Captain Boomerang (between
issues #155 / 209), the Top (between issues #157 / 219), Pied Piper (between
issues #164 / 218; all appear as the Rogue’s Gallery), the Flash of a parallel
Earth (first and only appearance)
Comment: This story takes place on the Flash’s first wedding anniversary.
The evil Flash of this story reappears in SUPER FRIENDS #?, in a story
outside of normal DC continuity.
Synopsis: The Mirror Master discovers a parallel world in which the
Flash is a villain and the Mirror Master of that world is a hero.
When the rest of the Rogues’ Gallery break out of jail, he vows to turn
that to their advantage in their duel with the Flash.

Story: AProfessor West--Lost, Strayed, or Stolen?” (9 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Mike Esposito
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#60)
Supporting Characters: Iris Allen, Prof. Ira West (last appearance
in issue #172; next chronological appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #122)
Intro: Dr. Binzo (only appearance)
Villains: Robbie, Mooch, and their confederate (first and only appearance
for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story, the Flash helps the Justice League
and Batgirl fight the Queen Bee in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #60.
Synopsis: Prof. Ira West remembers where a forgetful crook has stashed
his loot, which helps the thief considerably, but necessitates the Flash
having to save the professor.

The Flash No. 179
May 1968
Cover: Flash vs. Nok; Bobby reading issue of The Flash //Ross Andru
/ Mike Esposito
Story: AThe Flash--Fact Or Fiction?” (24 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Mike Esposito
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #61
/ 62)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Intro: Julius Schwartz of Earth-Prime (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE
OF AMERICA #123), Bobby and his mother, Ginny, an alien hunter (only appearance
for all), Earth-Prime
Cameo appearance: Gorilla Grodd
Villains: The Nok, a gang of crooks (first and only appearance for
all)
Comments: Earth-Prime, which is introduced in this story, is an Earth
in which super-heroes only exist in comic books until the coming of Ultraa
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #?. It is not our Earth, and is destroyed
in CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #11.
Shortly after this story, the Flash helps the Justice League fight
the Pyrotekniks and the Bulleteers in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #62, the
Key in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #63, and Dr. Anomaly in JUSTICE LEAGUE
OF AMERICA #240.
Synopsis: An alien beast which feeds on Flash’s aura knocks him out
of his own Earth and into another in which super-heroes are only found
in comic books, and in which he meets Julius Schwartz, editor of The Flash.

The Flash No. 185
February 1969
Cover: The Flash attacked by demonstrators //Ross Andru / Mike
Esposito
Story: AThreat of the High-Rise Building” (24 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Mike Esposito
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#69)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Intro: Inspector Pierre Martell, Prof. Jordain, Yamair, Konar, Xamay,
Zindor, Titanians (only appearance for all)
Villains: Le Loup and his gang (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight Headmaster Mind in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #69.
The Titanians in this story are not the same race as Kral (in ADVENTURE
COMICS #205) and Saturn Girl (of the Legion of Super-Heroes). Therefore,
their homeworld of Titan is not the same as Saturn’s moon.
Synopsis: After the Eiffel Tower is yanked into space, Barry Allen,
vacationing in Paris, goes into action as the Flash to stave off an alien
invasion.

The Flash No. 186
March 1969
Cover: Dave and another kid viewing Flash’s bones //Ross Andru / Mike
Esposito
Story: ATime Times Three Equals--?” (23 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Mike Friedrich
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Mike Esposito
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #69
/ 70)
GS: Sargon the Sorceror (last appearance in GREEN LANTERN (1st series)
#38; next appears in issue #207)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Intro: Dave and other kids (only appearance for all)
Cameo appearance: Humphrey Bogart (in a gangster film)
Villains: Professor Zoom (between issues #175 / 225), Sargon
Comments: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
and the Creeper fight some aliens and crooks in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#70.
The Flash’s skeleton is taken from between panels in CRISIS ON INFINITE
EARTHS #8, probably just before it disintegrates.
It is revealed in this story that Barry Allen played high school football.
Synopsis: Sargon the Sorceror, having turned to evil, seeks to learn
how to travel to the future. Doing this involves bringing Professor
Zoom, the Reverse-Flash, back to the 20th Century, and snatching the Flash’s
skeleton from the time of his death.

The Flash No. 188
May 1969
Cover: The Flash looking at all-green Central City //Ross Andru
/ Mike Esposito
Story: AThe Most Colorful Villain of All” (23 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Mike Esposito
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #70
/ 71)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Intro: Horace, Sibyl, Dr. Maybrook, Mako (only appearance for all)
Villain: Mirror Master (between issues #174 / 207 (Elongated Man story))
and his doppleganger (first appearance; destroyed in this story), Baker
and his gang (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight Commander Blanx in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #71.
Synopsis: A freak explosion from the Flash’s ring, as he prepares to
go after the Mirror Master, leaves him unable to see any color but green.

The Flash No. 189
June 1969
Cover: Barry Allen handing Flash uniform to Kid Flash //Joe Kubert
(signed)
Story: AThe Death-Touch of the Blue Ghost” (23 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Mike Esposito
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #71)
GS: Kid Flash (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #83; next appears
in TEEN TITANS #21)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Villains: Ke Byk, Azurians (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story, Kid Flash helps the Teen Titans
(and the Hawk and Dove) fight aliens in TEEN TITANS #21-22, help Sammy
Soul in TEEN TITANS #23, fight Anson Larson in TEEN TITANS #24, have an
adventure with Mr. Jupiter in TEEN TITANS #25-27, fight the Ocean Master
and aliens in TEEN TITANS #28-29, and fight Kevin Murphy and Hargood P.
Tout in TEEN TITANS #30, after which he fights an unnamed super-villain
in a text story in TEEN TITANS #30, all before he reappears in issue #202.
Synopsis: The Flash is irradiated by blue aliens and causes Iris Allen
to age rapidly when he runs through her at hyper-speed. As
a result, Kid Flash must find a way of preventing his mentor from giving
in to despair and of getting the antidote from the aliens.

The Flash No. 190
August 1969
Cover: The Flash examined by doctor as Iris Allen looks on //Joe Kubert
Story: ASuper-Speed Agent of the Flash” (14 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Mike Esposito
Feature Character: The Flash
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Villains: The Muscle Men (first and only appearance)
Synopsis: An injury to his foot sustained while fighting a tornado
causes a doctor to proclaim that the Flash will never run again.

Story: ATen Years To Live, One Second To Die” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Mike Esposito
Feature Character: The Flash
Supporting Characters: Dexter Myles (between issues #171 / 197), Iris
Allen
Intro: Joel Travis (only appearance)
Cameo appearance: The Flash of Earth-2
Villains: The Far-Outers (including Muggy and Pampas), Blue-Chip Chipman
(first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis: The Flash is imprisoned by an old enemy who warns him that
any attempts to escape his cell will cause ten bombs to explode in Central
City.

The Flash No. 191
September 1969
Cover: Hal Jordan’s hands reaching for the Flash’s costume //Joe
Kubert
Story: AHow To Invade Earth Without Really Trying” (23 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Mike Esposito
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS
#189)
GS: Green Lantern (last appearance in GREEN LANTERN #71; next appears
in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #189)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen (next appears in SUPERMAN #220)
Other Character: Olivia Reynolds (between GREEN LANTERN #71 / 75)
Intro: Glabr, Lenglyns (only appearance for all)
Villains: Mogrians (first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
and Red Tornado fight Cthonic demons in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #72,
then helps the Justice League and Justice Society fight Aquarius in JUSTICE
LEAGUE OF AMERICA #74, then helps the Justice League fight Dr. Light and
learns his fellow members’ identities in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #122,
then joins Superman to defeat a plant menace in SUPERMAN #220.
Synopsis: The Flash and Green Lantern team up to fight alien robots
who are out to possess the AU-Mind” of Olivia Reynolds.

Story: AI Open My Mouth, But I Can’t Scream” (7 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Mike Friedrich
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Vince Colletta
Feature Character: The Flash (next chronological appearances in JUSTICE
LEAGUE OF AMERICA #206 and 130; also appears in flashback; see Comment
under SHOWCASE #4 for chronology)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
move its equipment from the Secret Sanctuary to its new satellite headquarters,
as shown in flashback in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #206 and in #130, in
the latter of which he helps them deal with the Dharlu.
Synopsis: The Flash must overcome his long-held fear of roller coasters
to save riders of such a ride from a sprung track.

The Flash No. 197
May 1970
Cover: Charlie Conwell catching Barry Allen releasing Flash costume
from ring //Gil Kane (signed)
Story: AFour-Star Super-Hero” (16 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Mike Friedrich
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Vince Colletta
Feature Character: The Flash (chronologically between JUSTICE LEAGUE
OF AMERICA #130 / 80)
Supporting Characters: Charlie Conwell (first appearance; next appears
in issue #224), Iris West, Dexter Myles (between issues #190 / 199)
Villains: AIce” King and his gang (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight Norch Lor in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #80.
Synopsis: The Flash plays all the parts of Shakespeare’s AHamlet” on
stage, but finds that his exertions have left him almost too weak to deal
with a gang of crooks afterwards.

The Flash No. 198
June 1970
Cover: The Flash in prayer before Rod Haines, Frankie Smith, and Betty
Foster //Gil Kane (signed)
Story: ANo Sad Songs For a Scarlet Speedster” (14 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Bob Kanigher
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Vince Colletta
Feature Character: The Flash
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Intro: Rod Haines, Frankie Smith, Betty Foster, Mr. Cooper (only appearance
for all)
Villains: A gang of crooks (first and only appearance)
Comment: This story continues in part from the second story in the
last issue.
Synopsis: The Flash’s head is grazed by a bullet while he is performing
for three orphans, regressing him mentally to an eight-year-old.

Story: ACall It Magic” (10 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Mike Friedrich
Penciller: Don Heck
Inker: Vince Colletta
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#81)
GS: Zatanna (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #51 / 87)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Intro: Namba (only appearance)
Villain: Xarkon (first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight the Jest-Master in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #81.
Synopsis: Zatanna is summoned by a magician to defeat a demon who has
taken over his body. When she fails to safely exorcise the demon,
she brings the Flash in to lend a hand.

The Flash No. 200
September 1970
Cover: The Flash running away from troops around White House with smoking
pistol //Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson (signed)
Story: “Count 200 And Die” (23 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Bob Kanigher
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#82)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Intro: Pablo Gomez (only appearance)
Other Character: Richard M. Nixon (of Earth-One)
Cameo appearances: Top, Pied Piper, Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang,
Heat Wave, Mirror Master (as dummies)
Villains: Dr. Lu and her employers (first appearance for all; all probably
die in this story)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
and Justice Society fight Creator2 in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #82-83,
then helps the Justice League fight Dr. Viktor Willard in JUSTICE LEAGUE
OF AMERICA #84.
This story features the numeral 200 as a continuing motif as part of
the 200th issue celebration.
Synopsis: A foreign spy, Dr. Lu, brainwashes the Flash into thinking
he is bringing hairspray to his wife when he is really attempting to assassinate
the president of the United States.

The Flash No. 203
February 1971
Cover: Flash trying to hold Iris Allen back from the future //Neal
Adams / Dick Giordano and photomontage
Story: AThe Flash’s Wife Is a Two-Timer” (22 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Robert Kanigher
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS
#199)
GA: Superman (last appearance in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #199; next appears
in ACTION COMICS #396)
Supporting Characters: Iris Allen (origin details revealed in this
story; also appears in flashback, her earliest chronological appearance;
next chronological appearance after flashback in SHOWCASE #4), Prof. Ira
West (last appearance in TEEN TITANS #31; next appears in issue #217; also
appears in flashback, his earliest chronological appearance; next chronological
appearance after flashback in issue #267 (2)), Eric and Fran Russell (Iris
Allen’s real parents; first appearance; next appear in issue #210), Mrs.
Ira West (in flashback; first and only appearance)
Villains: Sirik the Supreme and his men (first and only appearance
for all)
Comment: The 30th Century which Iris Allen comes from is an alternate
to the timeline in which the Legion of Super-Heroes exists.
Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League fight the
Cam-Nam-Laotians in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #87.
Synopsis: The Flash finds out that Iris is really a native of the 30th
Century, to which she has been drawn back by strange forces. Following
her there, he discovers that her parents and all the people of that time
are threatened by Sirik, an Asian invader.

The Flash No. 204
March 1971
Cover: Iris Allen revealing Flash’s secret identity to crowd; vignettes
of Superman, Batman, Black Canary, Green Lantern, and Hawkman //Neal Adams;
vignettes by Murphy Anderson
Story: AThe Great Secret Identity Expose” (17 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Robert Kanigher
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #87
/ 88)
GS: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN’S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #141;
next appears in ACTION COMICS #398), Batman (last appearance in BATMAN
#230; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #88), Green Arrow, Black
Canary (last appearance for both in GREEN LANTERN #82; both next appear
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #88), Hawkman (the Justice League of America;
between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #87 / 88)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Cameo appearances: Prof. and Mrs. Ira West, Sirik (in flashbacks)
Villains: Forrest Acker impersonator, Trigger Tess, Stomp Stacey, the
Graveyard Gang (first and only appearance for all)
Comments: Green Lantern does not appear in this story; the cover should
have featured Green Arrow instead.
Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League fight the
people of Mu in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #88.
Synopsis: After her trip back from the future, Iris Allen is seized
by uncontrollable impulses to shout out the true identities of impostors
or masqueraders--including that of her own husband, the Flash.

The Flash No. 206
May 1971
Cover: Flash seeing Susan Logan fall unharmed from airplane to ground
//Neal Adams
Story: A24 Hours of Immortality” (15 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Robert Kanigher
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #88
/ 89)
Intro: Susan Logan, Timmy Logan, William Kandell, Sylvia Kandell, Mal,
Prof. Lewis
Villains: Duus, Unuus, a gang of convicts (first and only appearance
for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash briefly appears with the
Justice League in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #89.
Synopsis: Two aliens allow two accident victims to live, provided the
mother of one and husband of another sacrifice their lives for them, which
they will claim in 24 hours. The two accept the bargain, and are
told that nothing may harm them until the aliens return to claim their
lives. But the Flash takes a hand to keep them from having to fulfill
the last part of the bargain.

The Flash No. 207
June 1971
Cover: Flash, demon, and Iris Allen //Neal Adams / Dick Giordano
Story: AThe Evil Sound of Music” (15 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Mike Friedrich
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #89
/ 90)
GS: Sargon the Sorceror (last appearance in issue #186; next appears
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #97)
GA: Batman (last appearance in BATMAN #232; next appears in DETECTIVE
COMICS #412)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen (next appears in issue #209)
Intro: Gracie (Sargon’s niece), Paul, and other members of Washington
Starship (a rock group based on the Jefferson Airplane; first and only
appearance for all)
Villain: Sargon the Sorceror
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight the people of Sareme in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #90.
Synopsis: Sargon finds a way to regain his Ruby of Life by opening
a door to a world of demons at a rock concert, but the Flash appears to
oppose him.

The Flash No. 208
August 1971
Cover: Sister Anne praying before St. Jude statue as Flash enters church
//Neal Adams / Dick Giordano
Story: AA Kind of Miracle In Central City” (14 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Robert Kanigher
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #90)
Intro: Mother Theresa, Sister Anne, Vic, Rita (only appearance for
all)
Villains: The Chief, the Top Man, Grey, Blue, and other crooks (first
and only appearance for all)
Synopsis: The Flash seeks to help a youth who formerly worked for a
drug dealer, and now wants to help find the dealer’s hidden loot, with
the help of his sister, who is a nun and prays for St. Jude to assist them.

Story: ACoincidence Can Kill” (7 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Steve Skeates
Penciller: Dick Dillin
Inker: Dick Giordano
Feature Character: Kid Flash (next appears in TEEN TITANS #32)
Intro: Genius George Simpson, Mrs. Simpson (only appearance for both)
Villains: The Big Boss and his gang (first and only appearance for
all)
Comment: Shortly after this story, Kid Flash helps the Teen Titans
save Mal from an alternate Earth and capture a crooked councilman in TEEN
TITANS #32-33, teams with Batman and the other Titans to fight STOPP in
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #94, and teams with Superman and the other Titans to
fight a computer in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #205, then helps the Teen Titans
fight Calibano in TEEN TITANS #35-36.
Synopsis: Kid Flash has to save a classmate from a mob of crooks after
the boy accidentally exchanges his gas-ring for Wally West’s costume-ring.

The Flash No. 215
May 1972
Cover: Flash, Flash of Earth-Two, and leg of Vandal Savage //Neal Adams
/ Dick Giordano
Story: ADeath of an Immortal” (25 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Len Wein
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Dick Giordano
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#91)
GS: The Flash of Earth-Two (last appearance in issue #201; next appears
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #91)
Supporting Character: Joan Garrick (between issues #201 / 229)
Intro: Tempus (only appearance)
Cameo appearances: Wonder Woman and Hawkman of Earth-Two, Napoleon
Bonaparte, Bismarck (all in flashback)
Villain: Vandal Savage (origin retold in flashback; between issues
#137 / 235)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash teams with the Justice
League and Justice Society (including the Flash of Earth-Two) to fight
Solomon Grundy in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #91-92, then helps the Justice
League and Deadman fight Merlyn the Archer, the Sensei, and the League
of Assassins in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #94, then briefly appears in
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #95, then helps the Justice League and Sargon
the Sorceror defeat Starbreaker in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #96-98.
Synopsis: Vandal Savage tricks both Flashes into bringing back a meteor
from Limbo so that he may expose himself to its radiations and become immortal
again.

The Flash No. 227
May-June 1974
Cover: Flash weeping as he reads a book entitled “Flash—This
Is Your Death!” //Nick Cardy
Story: “Flash—This Is Your Death” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Frank McLaughlin
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #110)
Villains: Captain Boomerang (between issues #209 / 242), Aussie Green
(Captain Boomerang’s father; first and only appearance)
Comment: Why Aussie Green has a different last name than Captain
Boomerang’s (Digger Harkness) has never been revealed. Possibly the
name “Aussie Green” is an alias.
Synopsis: Captain Boomerang escapes jail with the help of his
father, who also helps in putting Flash into a deathtrap.

The Flash No. 228
July-August 1974
Cover: Cary Bates’s hand holding back Flash from pursuing Trickster
//Nick Cardy
Story: “The Day I Saved the Life of the Flash” (12 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Tex Blaisdell
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#111)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Intro: Cary Bates of Earth-Prime (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #124)
Villain: The Trickster (between issues #209 / 239)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight the Injustice Gang in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #111 and Amazo in
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #112.
Synopsis: Flash writer Cary Bates passes through a fog into Earth-One,
where he helps the Flash combat the Trickster.

The Flash No. 229
September-October 1974
Cover: Flash tripping Flash of Earth-Two as Rag Doll flees with loot;
Black Hand making half of Green Lantern vanish; Doralla Kon and Flash;
vignettes of Kid Flash, Flash of Earth-Two, and Johnny Quick //Nick Cardy
Story: “The Rag Doll Runs Wild” (20 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Frank McLaughlin
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #112)
GS: The Flash of Earth-Two (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#113; next appears in issue #235)
Supporting Characters: Iris Allen, Joan Garrick (between issues #215
/ 236)
Villains: The Rag Doll (last appearance in FLASH COMICS #36; next appears
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #195), the Thinker (last appearance in THE
ATOM #29; next appears in ALL-STAR COMICS #63), the Walton Gang (first
and only appearance)
Synopsis: The Flash helps the Earth-Two Flash apprehend the Rag Doll
after a series of mishaps convince Jay Garrick that he may be getting too
old to be a super-hero. But the “accidents” turn out to be machinations
of the Thinker.

The Flash No. 243
August 1976
Cover: Flash carrying Top’s body, flanked by Mirror Master, Captain
Cold, Weather Wizard, Captain Boomerang, Heat Wave, and Trickster //Ernie
Chua (signed)
Story: “If I Can’t Rob Central City, Nobody Can” (11 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Frank McLaughlin
Feature Character: The Flash (appears only in flashback)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Villains: The Top (death revealed in this story; appears only as a
corpse and in flashback; last chronological appearance in flashback
in issue #250; next appears, as a ghost, in issue #297), Pied Piper (between
issues #239 / 254), Mirror Master, Captain Boomerang, Trickster, Heat Wave,
Captain Cold, Weather Wizard
Comment: Story continues in next issue.
Synopsis: The Top, dead as a result of his last encounter with the
Flash, leaves a prerecorded message with his fellow villains informing
them that he has planted six bombs in Central City, to find which they
must repeat his same robberies--and risk capture by the Flash.

The Flash No. 244
September 1976
Cover: Flash vs. Captain Cold, Weather Wizard, Heat Wave, and Mirror
Master //Ernie Chua (signed)
Story: “The Last Day of June Is the Last Day of Central City” (18 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Frank McLaughlin
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#131)
Supporting Characters: Iris Allen, Dexter Myles (last appearance in
issue #241; next appears in DC SPECIAL SERIES #11)
Villains: Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang, Mirror Master (all next
appear in SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS #1), Trickster (next appears
in SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS #8), Heat Wave (next appears in issue
#248), Weather Wizard (next appears in issue #254)
Comments: Story continues from last issue.
Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League fight
Sonar and the Queen Bee in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #131-132 and briefly
appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #133.
Synopsis: The six super-villains strive to recover the Top’s bombs
and restack them in the exact order to deactivate them while trying to
avoid the Flash.

The Flash No. 245
November 1976
Cover: The Flash vs. the Zinger Gang //Ernie Chua (signed)
Story: “Who Put the Zing In the Flash?” (11 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Frank McLaughlin
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#135)
Supporting Character: Iris Allen
Intro: Ted, Jimmy
Villains: The Zinger Gang (first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League,
Justice Society, Squadron of Justice, and Marvel Family fight King Kull
and his minions in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #135, 137, then helps the
Justice League fight Kanjar Ro in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #138-139 (first
story) and Captain Cold and other villains in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#139 (second story).
Synopsis: The Flash tries to fight a gang whose ray-guns interfere
with his super-speed.

The Flash No. 247
March 1977
Cover: Abra Kadabra vs. Flash and Flash of Earth-Two //Mike Grell /
?
Story: “The Mad, Mad Earth of Abra Kadabra” (17 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Frank McLaughlin
Feature Character: The Flash
GS: The Flash of Earth-Two (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#137; next appears in ALL-STAR COMICS #64)
Supporting Character: Joan Garrick (last appearance in ALL-STAR COMICS
#61; next appears in ?)
Villain: Abra Kadabra (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #158)
Comments: A reference to the United Planets in this story indicates
that the 64th Century of Abra Kadabra is on the same timeline as the 30th
Century Legion of Super-Heroes.
Story continues from last issue.
Synopsis: While Flash tries to escape from his 64th Century prison,
Abra Kadabra has mistakenly gone back to the 20th Century of Earth-Two
and wonders why the Flash doesn’t look like he used to.

The Flash No. 252
August 1977
Cover: The Flash being held back by Elongated Man from chasing Chane
Gang member //Rich Buckler / Jack Abel (signed)
Story: “Double Dose of Danger” (17 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Frank McLaughlin
Colorist: Jerry Serpe
Feature Character: The Flash
GS: Elongated Man (becomes the Molder in this story; last appearance
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #143)
Supporting Characters: Sue Dibny (last appearance in DETECTIVE COMICS
#465), Iris Allen
Intro: Chet (only appearance)
Villains: The Chane Gang (two Chane brothers; first appearance for
both), the Elongated Man (as the Molder)
Comment: Story continues in next issue.
Synopsis: The Flash is enlisted by Sue Dibny to help find her missing
husband, the Elongated Man. But the Stretchable Sleuth has inexplicably
turned into the Molder, a super-villain with the power to turn solid objects
into putty-like substances with a touch, and fights the Flash in his new
identity.

DC Special Series No. 1 (Five-Star Super-Hero Spectacular)
1977
Cover: Atom, Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman, and Batman //Neal Adams
(signed)
Story: “How To Prevent a Flash” (13 pages)
Editor: Paul Levitz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Frank McLaughlin
Colorist: Anthony Tollin
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in THE FLASH #253; next
appears in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #246)
Supporting Character: Patty Spivot (first appearance; next appears
in issue #11)
Cameo appearance: Wally West (in flashback), Officer Barnes (in Barry
Allen’s imagination; only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash and the rest of the Justice
League are taken in by a plot of the Parasite’s in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS
#246, then the Flash briefly appears with the Justice League (and Justice
Society) in ALL-STAR COMICS #68 and JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #147, briefly
appears in the Green Arrow / Black Canary story in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS
#247, then teams with Supergirl and the Atom to fight T. O. Morrow in SUPER-TEAM
FAMILY #11, then helps the Justice League fight the Secret Society of Super-Villains
in DC SPECIAL SERIES #6.
Synopsis: In the instant before he saves his lab assistant from being
struck by chemicals knocked over by a lightning bolt, Barry Allen imagines
what it would be like if she became Ms. Flash.

The Flash No. 259
March 1978
Cover: Black Hand attacking Flash with hands from Power-Light //Rich
Buckler / Bob McLeod (signed)
Story: “Black Hand--the Kill-Proof Criminal” (17 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Frank McLaughlin
Letterer: Milt Snapinn
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#152)
Supporting Characters: Iris Allen (last appearance in issue #257; next
appears in SUPER-TEAM FAMILY #15), Ira West (last appearance in issue #237;
next appears in DC SPECIAL SERIES #11), Barney Sands (next appears in issue
#267)
Villain: Black Hand (next appears in GREEN LANTERN #146)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
battle Major Macabre in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #152, then teams with
the New Gods to fight Darkseid in SUPER-TEAM FAMILY #15.
Synopsis: The Flash attempts to battle Black Hand without his protective
aura, despite the danger of being burned to death by air friction.

The Flash No. 260
April 1978
Cover: Flash; Phillip Russell in coffin; Flash vs. Viper; Flash, Iris
Allen, and others at wedding of Phillip Russell and Cynthia Ross (four
vignettes) //Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (signed)
Story: “The 1000-Year-Old Root” (17 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Joe Giella
Letterer: Ben Oda
Colorist: Gene D’Angelo Torres
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in SUPER-TEAM FAMILY
#15; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #153)
Supporting Characters: Iris Allen (last appearance in SUPER-TEAM FAMILY
#15; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #154), Eric and Fran Russell
(both between issues #237 / 350, though Eric’s mind next appears in Nathan
Newbury’s body in issue #338)
Intro: Cynthia Ross Russell (only appearance)
Villain: The Viper (Philip Russell; first and only appearance)
Comment: Story takes place on January 13, 1978.
Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League and
Ultraa battle Maxitron in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #153, then helps the
Justice League fight Dr. Destiny in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #154 and
Amazo in ACTION COMICS #480-483.
Synopsis: Iris’s parents come back from the 30th Century with Iris
and the Flash, but Eric learns in his research that his ancestor in 1978
was pronounced dead on January 13, 1978, hours before he was recorded as
marrying his fiancee.

DC Special Series No. 11 (Flash Spectacular)
1978
Cover: Kid Flash, Flash, and Flash of Earth-Two vs. Grodd; Johnny Quick
vignette //Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (signed)
Story: “Beyond the Super-Speed Barrier” (64 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Pencillers: Irv Novick (pgs. 1-5, 17-37, 63-65)
Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (pgs. 6-16)
Kurt Schaffenberger (pgs. 38-49)
Alex Saviuk (pgs. 50-62)
Inkers: Joe Giella (pgs. 1-5, 17-37, 50-65)
Wally Wood (pgs. 6-16)
Murphy Anderson (pgs. 38-49)
Letterers: Milt Snapinn, Ben Oda
Colorist: Carl Gafford
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #483;
next appears in SHOWCASE #100)
GS: Kid Flash (last appearance in TEEN TITANS #53; next appears in
SHOWCASE #100), Flash of Earth-Two (between ALL-STAR COMICS #70 / 72),
Johnny Quick (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #207; last appearance)
GA: Ralph Dibny (the Elongated Man; last appearance in ACTION COMICS
#483; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #155), Clark Kent (Superman;
last appearance in ACTION COMICS #483; next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY
#188), Bruce Wayne (Batman; last appearance in ACTION COMICS #483; next
appears in CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN #87), Dick Grayson (Robin; last appearance
in BATMAN FAMILY #17; next appears in SHOWCASE #100), Duela Dent (the Harlequin;
last appearance in BATMAN FAMILY #16; next appears in NEW TEEN TITANS #50),
Mal Duncan (the Guardian; last appearance in TEEN TITANS #53; next appears
in SUPERMAN FAMILY #191), Aqualad (last appearance in AQUAMAN #63; next
appears in SHOWCASE #100), Donna Troy (Wonder Girl), Roy Harper (Speedy;
last appearance for both in TEEN TITANS #53; both next appear in SHOWCASE
#100)
Supporting Characters: Iris Allen (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE
OF AMERICA #154; next appears in THE FLASH #261), Patty Spivot (last appearance
in issue #1; next appears in THE FLASH #262), Robert and Marion West (both
between THE FLASH #165 / 266), Tubby Watts (last appearance in ADVENTURE
COMICS #207; last appearance), Solovar (last appearance in SUPER-TEAM FAMILY
#3; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #157), Joan Garrick (between
ALL-STAR COMICS #61 / 73), Stacy Conwell (between THE FLASH #255 / 263),
Dexter Myles (between THE FLASH #244 / 264), Sue Dibny (between THE FLASH
#253 / 277), Ira West (between THE FLASH #259 / 277)
Intro: Leslie, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Rhodes, Inez Rhodes (only appearance
for all)
Villains: Grodd (last appearance in SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS
#11; next appears in THE FLASH #294), the Turtle (last appearance in THE
FLASH #220; last appearance), Jrojj (first appearance; dies in this story)
Comments: This story takes place on February 20, 1978, though why Wally
West is graduating high school in February rather than in May has yet to
be explained.
Kid Flash reveals his secret identity to his parents and the
Flash of Earth-Two reveals his secret identity to the public in this story.
Shortly after this story Flash and Kid Flash join the heroes
of Earth to fight an alien being in SHOWCASE #100. Then the Flash
helps the Justice League fight the Regnans in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#155 and the gods of Oceania in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #156.
Synopsis: Grodd is separated into his component atoms by the executioners
of Gorilla-City, but finds a way to reform his body by using three Flashes
and Johnny Quick.

Story: “Origin of the Flash’s Uniform” (8 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Alex Saviuk
Inker: Frank Chiaramonte
Letterer: Milt Snapinn
Colorist: Carl Gafford
Feature Character: The Flash (within SHOWCASE #4 (1); see chronology
in Comment for that issue; origin details revealed)
Supporting Character: Iris West (within SHOWCASE #4 (1)), Prof. Ira
West (last chronological appearance in flashback in issue #203; next chronological
appearance in issue #134)
Villains: Pete and another crook (first and only appearance for both)
Comment: This story takes place within the first story of SHOWCASE
#4. See Comment for that story for chronology.
Synopsis: Shortly after Barry Allen gains super-speed, he reveals his
secret to Prof. Ira West, who helps him construct the Flash’s uniform.
But two crooks break into the professor’s house to steal his stamp collection,
and West receives a blow that gives him partial amnesia.

Adventure Comics No. 463
May-June 1979
Story: “Urtumi the Image Eater” (12 pages)
Editor: Ross Andru
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Don Heck
Inker: Joe Giella
Letterer: Ben Oda
Colorist: Gene D’Angelo Torres
Feature Character: The Flash (next appears in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #151)
Intro: Dr. Steiger, the Honrus (latter in flashback; only appearance
for both)
Villain: Urtumi (first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash teams with Batman to in
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #151, then helps the Justice League induct Zatanna and
fight the Warlock in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #161, combat the Shark in
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #162, fight Anton Allegro and Highlord in JUSTICE
LEAGUE OF AMERICA #163-165, and battle the Secret Society of Super-Villains
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #166-168.
Synopsis: An Indian legend leads the Flash to an ectoplasm-eating monster
who menaces Central City.

Adventure Comics No. 464
July-August 1979
Story: “The Day Up Was Down” (11 pages)
Editor: Ross Andru
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Don Heck
Inker: Joe Giella
Letterer: Ben Oda
Colorist: Gene D’Angelo Torres
Feature Character: The Flash (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #168
/ 169)
Intro: Ted Wentworth, Chet, B. P. (only appearance for all)
Villain: Abra Kadabra (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#158; next appears in THE FLASH #299)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League
fight the Over-Complex in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #169-170, then helps
the Justice League and Justice Society discover the killer of Mr. Terrific
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #171-172, then helps the Justice League fight
the Regulator in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #173-174, teams with Green Lantern
to fight Shaggy Man in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #186 (flashback),
and helps the Justice League fight Dr. Destiny in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#175-176.
Synopsis: The Flash has to find a way to put things right-side-up when
Abra Kadabra returns to Central City and turns the entire town upside-down.

The Flash No. 308
April 1982
Cover: Young Barry Allen (in Flash uniform), Daphne Dean, and Lance
Basilla; Flash, Daphne Dean, and the Mummy (two vignettes) //Carmine Infantino
/ Dennis Jensen?
Story: “The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful” (17 pages)
Editor: Mike W. Barr
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Dennis Jensen
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Gene D’Angelo Torres
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA #200; next appears in GREEN LANTERN #151; also appears in flashback;
see Comment under SHOWCASE #4 for chronology; origin details revealed)
Supporting Characters: Daphne Dean (last appearance in issue #251),
Patty Spivot,
Intro: Charles, Hiram, a doctor (only appearance for all)
Villain: The Mummy (Lance Basilla; first and only appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story the Flash briefly appears in GREEN
LANTERN #151, then helps the Justice League fight Ultraa and Joe Perry
in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #201 and the Phantom Zone criminals in PHANTOM
ZONE #2.
Synopsis: Lance Basilla tormented Barry Allen and Daphne Dean once
in childhood. Now he’s back to try and claim her as a love-object,
and the only one who can stop him is the Flash.

The Flash No. 309
May 1982
Cover: Flash travelling back in time to the moment when Barry Allen
was splashed by chemicals //Carmine Infantino / Dennis Jensen?
Story: “How Do You Kill a Legend?” (17 pages)
Editor: Mike W. Barr
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Dennis Jensen
Letterer: Milt Snapinn
Colorist: Gene D’Angelo Torres
Feature Character: The Flash (last appearance in PHANTOM ZONE #2; next
appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #202; origin retold in this story)
Supporting Characters: Darryl Frye
Cameo appearances: Superman, Batman
Intro: Kryad (becomes the Flash of the 98th Century and dies in this
story)
Villain: An alien beast (first appearance; dies in this story)
Comments: This story establishes the time of the Flash’s origin as
April 23 at 6:14 P.M.
Shortly after this story the Flash helps the Justice League on
Hospital Starship One in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #202, then briefly appears
in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #281.
Synopsis: A time-traveller from the 98th Century comes back to the
20th to learn whether or not superheroes such as the Flash were legend
or fact, not knowing that he will become a Flash in his own time and will
sacrifice his life.

The Flash No. 320
April 1983
Cover: Flash costume in Eradicator’s hands //Ed Hannigan / Dick Giordano
(signed)
Story: “The Final Purge” (17 pages)
Editor: Ernie Colon
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Rodin Rodriguez
Letterer: Phil Felix
Colorist: Carl Gafford
Feature Character: The Flash
GS: Tomar-Re
Supporting Characters: Fiona Webb, Darryl Frye
Villains: The Eradicator (dies in this story), Mirror Master (between
issues #306 / 338) and his gang (first and only appearance)
Comments: Story continues in part in next issue.
The names of three of the Eradicator’s victims are revealed in
this story (Peter Smoll, Daniel Tate, and Henry Drendel), but there is
no way of telling which victims in earlier issues they were.
Synopsis: The Flash and the Eradicator have a final showdown over the
fate of Fiona Webb and the Flash himself.